Interesting website/Chrome-Firefox add-on: Builtwith.com
Category software development
I ran across an interesting website this evening that goes into a website (you provide the URL) and digs out the underlying technologies that make up the site. Builtwith.com does this either via a web page where you enter the URL, or with a Chrome/Firefox add-on that adds a icon to your browser to do the same thing for the page you're currently on.
For instance, when I ran the add-on for the home page of my blog, it came back with a wealth of information:
Where it really comes in handy is to figure out what Javascript libraries might be in use for a particular site to accomplish a certain effect or function. It certain beats having to dig through all the HTML source to figure it out on your own.
I just installed the add-on to my Firefox browser this evening. Since it doesn't do anything until you click the icon, it shouldn't introduce any instability. If you don't want to clutter up your browser with add-ons, you can just go to their website to run the analysis.
This should be a great addition to a web designer's toolbox...
I ran across an interesting website this evening that goes into a website (you provide the URL) and digs out the underlying technologies that make up the site. Builtwith.com does this either via a web page where you enter the URL, or with a Chrome/Firefox add-on that adds a icon to your browser to do the same thing for the page you're currently on.
For instance, when I ran the add-on for the home page of my blog, it came back with a wealth of information:
Where it really comes in handy is to figure out what Javascript libraries might be in use for a particular site to accomplish a certain effect or function. It certain beats having to dig through all the HTML source to figure it out on your own.
I just installed the add-on to my Firefox browser this evening. Since it doesn't do anything until you click the icon, it shouldn't introduce any instability. If you don't want to clutter up your browser with add-ons, you can just go to their website to run the analysis.
This should be a great addition to a web designer's toolbox...
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This looks useful - it's not too difficult to view the source and work out what's happening but it takes time, particularly if there are compressed, combined JS libraries. One click saves me a lot of time
Ahh ... you didn't drop the link for the Firefox add-on in your post - it's available at { Link }
Thanks again!
Mark
Posted by Mark Haller At 00:35:12 On 10/06/2010 | - Website - |
Posted by Chris Miller At 07:31:21 On 10/06/2010 | - Website - |